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Join us as we continue our What's in the Box? introduction series with A.J. Wood of Media Cats presenting an Introduction to Illustrator CS3. With 16+ years of experience, A.J. has an ability to communicate ideas and solutions that is exceeded only by his passion for teaching. So whether you have never opened the application or you are an experienced Illustrator user with questions, A.J. is sure to teach you some tricks!
As always, pizza will be served. We will also have another pizza subsidy raffle for some Adobe goodies. Tickets are $1 each.

Ok, so I am working on a project for a client that wants a QuickTime movie. I open up my render options and half of my QuickTime codecs are gone. What how can this be?!!! Just a few weeks ago everything was there, I haven't installed anything...oh wait...I did upgrade Quicktime.
I called Apple and spoke to some guy that blamed Adobe for not being up to date, and spent over an hour and a half problem solving with ultimately no solution.

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There hasn't been too much going on in the world of Flex since the release of version 3. However, application development is moving at a raging pace right now and if you are trying to see what kinds of apps are being developed in Flex, be sure to check out the Flex Showcase.

Dave at Nerdbooks is looking for a print designer to help him design some corporate identity pieces (letterhead, envelopes, business cards, etc.). If you have an interest please contact Dave directly. Click here to email Dave.

I've been pulling my hair out lately over the fact that IE7 refuses to acknowledge that I already "have the latest Flash Player installed". Firefox 2 plays nice - but sites with Flash content in IE - nothing but blank content and annoying prompts to download a Flash player I already have.
Then I stumbled upon this patch from Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html
...and everything's been great ever since.
Hope this helps out.

After releasing the 1.4 update to Lightroom it was discovered that there were quite a few problems. Adobe subsequently pulled the update. Now those issues have been resolved and Lightroom 1.4.1 is ready for you to download.
The three major fixes from the last update include: